Some cool, distressed denim

[mikedbt5]

Cant rep you , again , but they are two fantastic pics . Thats the first good pic I have seen with the deeper cut jean pockets like the 1966 . Any date on those ?

[fardin]

thanks mike and no there is no year on those,

pic is by Leonard Mccombe on the Houston Frontier Festival College Students. the festival was dicontinued in 1959, so i guess it must be from that time. yes the pocket are deeper cut like your 1966, and not at all like my 1959 ones, still as far as i know from paul lee never only had one cut at a time.

59 seems reasonable, and real mccoys has embroidred lee jackets like that

[mikedbt5]

I have a book called 'The Jeans ' , japanese book from a few years ago . There is a section of Lee posters/adverts etc.. among it is a small pic of a cowboy wearing ' the new slim Lee Riders ' The pockets look deep but the overall cut is very like Monty Clifts pic , no date on it but I agrre with Paul - Lee had many styles and detailing thru the 50/60s . Thats why I like them so much !!!

If you check out some of my posts of Lee Rider adverts , there are all sorts of cuts .

[fardin]

50s levis

could be that the girl is wearing lee jeans, check out the arcuate stiching on the back pockets.

[ChuckO]

Incredible pictures Fardin,

I love the '50's to mid-60's clothes. Right up until the hippie thing got out of hand with bell bottoms and the Janis Joplin style psychedelic Grandma look.

[ChuckO]

Haven't seen this one yet. Check out the little cowboy on the far left fixing his hat. Love the colors of that shirt. That's 1940:

[ChuckO]

Denim and leather. Is that an A2 for little guys? 1968:

[fardin]

a nice pair of 50s levis

[beatle]

cool pics...

[Mr Black]

That second pic makes me laugh.

I can imagine the commanding officer ordering the guys to 'look natural for the camera'

Didn't quite work. They all look painfully self concious

[beatle]

That second pic makes me laugh.

I can imagine the commanding officer ordering the guys to 'look natural for the camera'

Didn't quite work. They all look painfully self concious

Ur right..funniest thing are the guys on the right "reading"

[emmitbrown]

Great stuff fardin.

This is definitely my favorite thread.

[fardin]

welcome guys

yeah kinda funny pic, most of the guys reading seem to have cigars and were probably playing poker before they had to pose for that pic.

[YoungPunch]

[fardin]

great pic younpunch!!!

[Mr Black]

Ruddy beautiful

[setterman]

I gotta start cuffing my jeans higher. That's guy on the left with the scowl on his face is wearing his jeans perfectly.

Notice in the dragster picture and in the excellent beach photo posted a few days ago, that there isn't a much fading going on? A friend of mine who grew up in the 50s said his 501s didn't wear in the way so many here are looking for (whiskers/combs), they just faded to a little bit lighter shade of indigo (but still stayed fairly dark). Part of that was probably due to jeans getting washed at least once a month rather than a couple times a year.

[Mr Black]

I like the way the guy on the right with the sunglasses wears his. A look/fit I try to occasionally emulate myself with varying successes.

[Mr Black]

Some classic 60's pics. Apologies for the quality

[fardin]

i read on the fedoras lounge from a guy that grew up in the 50s that they consideres slim cuffs cooler, just like most of the guys in the hot rod pic and the beach pic too. even the mods still wore it that way. by the way cool pics mr black.

considering that , these pics from 1948 are really interesting, notice the kids wore more dungaree style pants and all are sporting boots, its like a template for generations to come.

[YoungPunch]

[YoungPunch]

[YoungPunch]

O.k., last set of pics from the Life Drag-racing series. The last picture doesn't have any denim in it, but I just think its cool!

[Mr Black]

Beautiful. Just beautiful. Once again- these really should be compiled into a book.

Put me down for the 1st off the presses.

[Leonard Leroy]

This page is amazing

[fardin]

so many pics of cowboys wearing levis, they must have really dominated the market back then.

and this is the stranges lee i have seen. the pic is from the 50s and one leg has a selvage and the other does not. maybe i should have posted it in the lee thread, cause they are not even distressed. still...

[erk]

i think the selvage seam is just folded over. cool find. those marines rough outs are crazy.

[ChuckO]

Robert Frank's Indianapolis 1956(from "THE AMERICANS", 1955-1956) printed circa 1977.

[jstavrin]

What are you guys looking under to find these photos?

[ChuckO]

I noticed "Indianapolis 1956" in a story in Smithsonian magazine and then I just went to Google images to find it online.

I think a lot of these images come from images from Life Magazine that Google and Life made available thru Google images.